Lenis – Get smooth or die trying • Hacker News Board

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

#11

Post by Phemist » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 8:33 PM UTC

This website is pretty much unusable for me on Firefox (Ubuntu 22.04). I'm also running a GPU-wise, fairly heavy game in the background currently, which I'm sure is attempting to draw frames even though it has been minimized. Likely competes for the same resource this website is trying to use, but gets priority and the website just barely, if it all, responds to my scrolling.

In fact, the experience was so viscerally annoying, it incited me to write a comment about it on HN.

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

#12

Post by dvh » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 8:33 PM UTC

When I switch to reader mode it's really smooth.

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

#13

Post by Aldipower » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 8:37 PM UTC

I went on the website and thought: "Wow, this is great. I really like. Maybe I could use it for my next project." Then I came to the HN comment section, read only negative comments and now I do not want to use it anymore. Sad saturated world.

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

#14

Post by mynegation » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 8:37 PM UTC

It is maddeningly janky for me on iPhone 11 Pro.

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

#15

Post by throwanem » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 8:39 PM UTC

Phemist wrote: post #11

This website is pretty much unusable for me on Firefox (Ubuntu 22.04). I'm also running a GPU-wise, fairly heavy game in the background currently, which I'm sure is attempting to draw frames even though it has been minimized. Likely competes for the same resource this website is trying to use, but gets priority and the website just barely, if it all, responds to my scrolling. In fact, the experience was so viscerally…

It's rough on iOS Safari, too, with annoyingly unpredictable behavior and elements jumping around seemingly at random.

I'm sure it's very nice in Chrome!

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

#16

Post by javawizard » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 8:41 PM UTC

The scrolling lags on my 2020 M1 MacBook Air. It's smooth as butter, but when it takes a few hundred milliseconds to start moving I don't feel in the slightest like I "forget I'm navigating a web page" - more like I'm driving an ICE car where the engine lags the pedal enough that I have to compensate for it.

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

#17

Post by snapcaster » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 8:41 PM UTC

quanticle wrote: post #10

It's not actually all that smooth. Oh, I'm sure on a top-of-the-line M2 Macbook Pro, running Safari or Chrome, it's like butter. But on a slightly less capable (Core i5U, 24GB RAM) Thinkpad, running Firefox, I can hear the fans spin up and the scroll feels a bit laggy. Certainly not as smooth as scrolling a relatively static website, such as Hacker News.

Glad this comment was here haha, I'm on an m1 ultra macbook pro (the m2s haven't shipped yet?) and it does scroll really smoothly

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

#18

Post by high_pathetic » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 8:46 PM UTC

And nobody is going to comment on the name? I think they really missed an opportunity here. Why not Scrotul?

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

#19

Post by pyrolistical » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 8:49 PM UTC

mynegation wrote: post #14

It is maddeningly janky for me on iPhone 11 Pro.

Same on iPhone 12 mini

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

#20

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 8:50 PM UTC

quanticle wrote: post #10

It's not actually all that smooth. Oh, I'm sure on a top-of-the-line M2 Macbook Pro, running Safari or Chrome, it's like butter. But on a slightly less capable (Core i5U, 24GB RAM) Thinkpad, running Firefox, I can hear the fans spin up and the scroll feels a bit laggy. Certainly not as smooth as scrolling a relatively static website, such as Hacker News.

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